Sequels: After Haydn's Op. 33 String Quartets (Amazingly)

[@mikeminden1090]

Nielsen got it. There's a guy who could use some rehabilitating from the Grim North trope-of-doom.

[@aarong5716]

I actually like the "How Do You Do" nickname! The moment you hear that nickname, you instantly hear the opening theme play in your head, and know EXACTLY which quartet people are talking about. I'd say 100% inane nicknames like "Mercury" or (gag) "Elvira Madigan" are infinitely worse.

[@abrain]

The amazing Apponyi Quartet recording is not to be missed.

[@lilivonshtupp1527]

Thank you for focusing on an aspect of Haydn that is too often missing, his humour. Two decades ago, I was reading a book covering Haydn's masses, I think by Don V Moses, but I was overjoyed at the time to discover all of the wit Haydn imbued into his sacred music. It certainly gives an "inside joke" dimension when listening to his music. I look forward to finding the Krommer.

[@andrewhCC]

As a listener I was just starting to explore beyond the core repertoire when Naxos opened out with such a broad range at an affordable price. Thanks to them I have enjoyed the Krommer wind partitas for a long time - also the Reicha wind quintets are among my favourites. Thanks to you for showing the link back to Haydn Op 33 - great works with even more humour to them than I had realised. Just catching up on your channel, very engaging content and style.

[@jorgemittelmann620]

Incredibly rewarding!! How kind of you !! I was just going through some of Haydn’s far more obvious symphonic jokes with my children and trying to make them grasp how incredible amusing and smart Haydn was!! They got the jokes I think. But this video is a real treat to watch, like everything you post, by the way.👏👏❤️❤️

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

Thank you very much!

[@Zezahn]

Very, very true. Long live humor!

[@davekeyes5589]

I have a suggestion for a future video, Mr. Dave. How about an exploration of your favorite Haydn finales that are presto rondos?

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

It's a thought!

[@brafman1]

I really enjoyed this video. I've always found it interesting how learning about artistic works, whether paintings, music, or whatever the medium, heightens the enjoyment of experiencing them. Being let in on the joke is wonderful - thank you!

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@bernardohanlon3498]

David, bravo. If someone said to me that the Bird Quartet was the greatest quartet in existence, I would not argue otherwise. One day, please address Opus 64 and the great B Minor Adagio of Opus 64 / 2. Best wishes, B

[@davidbo8400]

By Jo(v)e, the "Quatuor Mosaiques" got the joke. Holy krommerel. It does make a heck of a difference.

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

Amazing what happens when you take Haydn at his word.

[@denbigh51]

I think it has been said before that the comic is undervalued compared with tragic art. This may account for Haydn being so underrated.

[@glazunovconcerto]

"At some point I'm going to do a video just on op. 33, so I can tell you where all the jokes are" Please, Dave! That would be so interesting!.. Do you know who (in my opinion) always gets Haydn's jokes? Hubert Buchberger from the Buchberger Quartett. They recorded all of his quartets, btw P.S. Huge fan of your channel. Thank you so much for your work! Dmitry

[@stephenkeen2404]

I'm sure Beethoven got the joke (he put enough of them into his own works). But I wonder if he also had a sequel. La Malinconia at the end of Op. 18, No. 6 bears, to my ears, a passing structural relationship to this movement of Haydn's, particularly at the end.

[@morrigambist]

When Krommer started to go chromatic, I immediately thought of P.D.Q. Bach.

[@DavesClassicalGuide]

Yes. It's very funny!

[@lerippletoe6893]

Do you think it's a lack of capability on behalf of the wind musicians or a general lack of interpretive willingness for musicians in general to play in poor taste, so he can bulletproof it by adding some things that force it to be silly? I used to play trombone and I gotta say nearly all of solo wind phrasing and the insecure overdone "musicality" people are taught is in poor taste hahahaha. You see considerably more subtlety, refinement, and restraint from pianists and violinists. Of course that's 21st century American pedagogy not a property of the instruments.